Ed Reed for the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio
Mayor de Blasio unveils 'Housing New York': A Five-Borough, 10-Year Housing Plan to Protect and Expand Affordability in Brooklyn on Monday, May 5, 2014.
‘Supportive housing has been notably absent from most mayoral candidate housing discussions in spite of the fact that our homelessness crisis is the worst on record – and that it disproportionately impacts Black and brown New Yorkers. It is time for that to change.’
Much has been written about the proposal to triple minimum rents for the very lowest income households. That’s not even the worst of it.
A supportive housing advocate—who hopes to convince Gov. Cuomo to build more of it—says more attention must be paid to the differences between temporary homeless shelters and permanent supportive housing.